The Opelousas courier., 1887-11-05
THE Chronic Pathfinder"

ton. lney cannot work right
along squarely and evenly. Every
thing is naturally digested on a
twist, and is sure to hit somebody
in the back. /
A community suffers more from
people that mean we'll, but are
gotten up on the back-action plan,
than from the scoundrels who live
on the public.
How common it is to hear a
man berate a prominent citizen in
the most indecent and offensive
terms. When asked the reason,
he retails a lot of statements which
that citizen is supposed to enter
tain. He freely admits that he
does not know anything positively
about the matter, and he has very
little or no acquaintance with him.
Generally, the less he knows the
more abusive he becomes. Such
men ought to be watched. When
you find a man who makes it a
business to vilify his neighbors or
prominent men in his locality,
keep an eye on him. He has
strong symptoms of being a scoun-
drel.
Every community suffers from
another class of men; men who
never see anything good in the
city and country where they re-
side. They seem to think that it
is a high recommendation to praise
the country from which they came,
and berate the country in which
they reside just as some low peo-:
pie are constantly Boosting of
their ancestry. They do not see
the point that a man who leaves a
productive and healthy country to
reside in an unfertile and sickly
country is either a fool or a knave.
He is a fool if he thinks he can
make more money in an unpro-
ductive country than in a produc-
tive one. He is a knave if he
subjects his family to the perils
of disease for the sake Of gain and
doubly a knave if he berates the
country that is furnishing him
bread without giving the subject
the fullest investigation. The
conditional virtue of a Roman was
to speak well Of his country. Ev-
cry citizen should in the main aim
to speak well of the section in
which he resides, or as a matter
of honor, he should move out.
j, A man that persists in living
where he thinks it is unhealthy,
and refusesso return to the Won
derful country he came from
should be watched. It is difficult
to assign a reason for such action.
Perhaps they do not want any
more people to come, fearing il
will divide the good things they
regard as their own. Perhaps they
are too indolent to investigate, ane
simply retail as a positive knowl
edge any story that is told them
but in the main the mental twis'
and back action theory is the true
explanation.-Americain
J -aSo
Shreveport Times 1t is wei
to occasionally revive little
, scraps of political history. So
Are the friends of Senator Glib
son prepared to deny that i'll
conversation with Mr.. Blaine
; when be w;is,a candidate for th,
presidency, on the subject o
Louisiana politics, in reply to
remark of the latter that tin
weakness Of the Republican par
j ty in this State was because o
1.-the fact that no respectable peo
pie belonged 10 it, the astut
: politician suggested that b
write to Henry c. Minor, of 81
Mary $, "A relative of his? Ar
they prepared to deny that no
long after this reputed CONVEX
sation, Mr.. Minor went to Me-
Orleans and organized a Reput
lican movement? Are they pre-
pared to deny that in the Thir
Congressional district Blain
had majority of 5000 votes
while The majority Of Congress
Yman Gay was only 60O2 Al
they prepared to deny that th
democratic Louisiana senate
I was thus giving aid and comfol
and valuable adQice to the ent
myg
The States has, during th
! canvass, made the Democracy
y Louisiana acquainted with man
of the features OF the Hunt-bol
IGogernor Nichols has now gil
! Ell the people his defense of
y and Of his participation thereiI
) What do the Democrats of Lo'
isiana think of that defense
Persons in a private station ma
be excused for sometimes i